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• Xylon logicBRICKS Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Now Runs on the ZedBoard Development Kit from Avnet Electronics Marketing (Thursday Sep. 20, 2012)
  Xylon today announced the availability of the 2D and 3D GPU logicBRICKS reference design for Xilinx® Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC based ZedBoard™ development kit from Avnet Electronics Marketing.
  
  
• InterNiche Technologies Announces Immediate Availability of Network Object Code Protocol Libraries for STMicroelectronics STM 32 Family (Monday Sep. 17, 2012)
  InterNiche is today announcing immediate availability of low cost object code versions of our TCP/IP v4 and Dual IPv4/v6, HTTP, FTP and Telnet, which means companies can now acquire networking libraries at a fraction of the cost of source code libraries.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies and ViXS Systems Collaborate to Secure Streaming of HD Video and Audio Content in Entertainment Devices (Wednesday Sep. 05, 2012)
  Elliptic Technologies as partnered with ViXS Systems, a leading innovator and provider of multimedia solutions, to integrate Elliptic's tVault HDCP 2.1 content protection technology with ViXS' XCode® 4200 Series of media processors to secure premium content streaming on connected devices.
  
  
• Optimized Port of micro-T-Kernel RTOS Now Available for Tensilica's DPUs (Tuesday Sep. 04, 2012)
  Tensilica and Ubiquitous Computing Technologytoday announced that an optimized port of the µT-Kernel RTOS (real-time operating system) is now supported on Tensilica's DPUs (dataplane processing units).
  
  
• CSR Debuts aptX Low Latency Codec for Synchronised Audio and Video (Friday Aug. 31, 2012)
  CSR today unveiled CSR aptX Low Latency, a new audio coding technology that slashes to one-third the delay, or latency, of stereo audio signals over Bluetooth® connectivity, effectively enabling consumers to watch video while listening to wireless audio in a synchronised fashion.
  
  
• Recore Systems presents reliable data processor for space mission (Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012)
  Today Recore Systems presents a prototype of a reliable data processor for space missions to captains of space industry, who are looking for more powerful and more reliable data processors for future use. Recore Systems has developed the functional prototype in assignment of ESA-ESTEC, the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands
  
  
• Agilent Technologies Introduces First Fully Integrated PCI Express 3.0 Receiver Test Software (Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012)
  Agilent Technologies today announced the industry's first fully integrated PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 receiver test calibration and transmitter test software.
  
  
• Adapteva Announces Availability of OpenCL SDK for Epiphany Multicore Architecture (Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012)
  Adapteva today announced that it is providing an early access release of its OpenCL SDK for the Epiphany multicore architecture. The OpenCL implementation was completed together with Brown Deer Technology, a leading innovator in open-source heterogeneous computing.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems Announces the Industry Fastest SD3.0 Compliant Hardware Validation Platform (Tuesday Aug. 21, 2012)
  Arasan announced today the availability of the industry fastest SD 3.0 compliant hardware validation platform for engineering and product development of SD 3.0 devices with UHS-I interface.
  
  
• AuthenTec Unveils First Military-grade Encryption Offering for Data Stored on Android Devices and Removable Storage Media (Tuesday Aug. 21, 2012)
  AuthenTec’s MatrixDAR™ for Android meets the stringent requirements of FIPS 140 certification and allows Android device manufacturers to add strong encryption that protects data stored on a smartphone or tablet as well as its removable flash drive or SD card.
  
  
• Codethink announces high-performance power-efficient ARM server, the Baserock Slab. (Monday Aug. 20, 2012)
  Codethink, a provider of software engineering services for mobile and embedded devices, announces its first generation high-performance power-efficient ARM server, the Baserock™ Slab.
  
  
• S3 Group Licenses Comcast Reference Design Kit, Continues to Broaden Its Portfolio to Meet the Needs of Global Operators (Thursday Aug. 16, 2012)
  S3 Group announced today that it has licensed the Comcast Reference Design Kit (RDK) and will now provide its professional services to integrate the RDK onto set-top box (STB) platforms.
  
  
• Mentor Embedded Extends Support for 42 Embedded Development Boards from Leading Microprocessor Companies (Wednesday Aug. 08, 2012)
  Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that over the past three months, it has added and improved support for 42 embedded development boards for the Nucleus® RTOS, Mentor® Embedded Linux®, and Sourcery™ Codebench embedded development products.
  
  
• Inband Software Offers DSP Development Services for Tensilica Customers (Tuesday Aug. 07, 2012)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Inband Software has worked closely with Tensilica on several HiFi Audio/Voice DSP porting projects and is now an Authorized Software Partner in the Xtensions Network.
  
  
• Imagination announces Caustic Visualizer interactive ray traced viewport plug-in for Autodesk Maya (Monday Aug. 06, 2012)
  Imagination Technologies today announces its ground-breaking Caustic Visualizer™ viewport plug-in for Autodesk® Maya® 2013*. Imagination will be demonstrating Caustic Visualizer’s highly interactive full-frame performance on the new PowerVR low-power ray tracing hardware reference platform.
  
  
• ARM Leads GPU Computing Trend, Improving Systems Performance and Energy-Efficiency (Friday Aug. 03, 2012)
  ARM submits ARM® Mali™-T604 GPU for Full Profile OpenCL Conformance
  
  
• World's Lowest-Cost Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" Tablet Shipping Now - It's MIPS! (Tuesday Jul. 31, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies together with Ingenic Semiconductor, a leading China-based CPU provider for mobile multimedia applications, and Karbonn Mobiles, a leading mobile brand and provider of attractively priced multimedia phones in India, today announced availability in India of the world's lowest-cost Android™ 4.1 'Jelly Bean' tablet.
  
  
• VIA Announces First Embedded ARM Based Pico-ITX Board, VIA VAB-800 (Tuesday Jul. 24, 2012)
  VIA Technologies today announced the VIA VAB-800 Pico-ITX embedded ARM board. Featuring a choice of an 800MHz or a 1GHz Freescale ARM Cortex-A8 processor, the VIA VAB-800 combines a wide operating temperature range with extremely low power consumption to meet the demands of high-end industrial and in-vehicle fanless embedded applications.
  
  
• Boston Limited Ships First ARM-Based Servers to Bring Low-Power Economics to High-Performance Data Centers (Monday Jul. 23, 2012)
  Boston Limited, the leading manufacturer of high performance, low-powered server, storage and clustered solutions, has begun manufacturing and worldwide distribution of its innovative Viridis server, based on Calxeda EnergyCore™ SoC (System on a Chip) leveraging ultra-low power ARM processors.
  
  
• First ARM Technology-Powered Cloud Debuts on OpenStack (Wednesday Jul. 18, 2012)
  A handful of vendors have created a trial version for ARM-based servers of the OpenStack cloud computing software now available for testing online. The open source offering fills in another small piece of software puzzle for the low power architecture working its way into the data center.
  
  
• ACE's CoSy compiler framework outperforms LLVM for the ARM9 processor (Thursday Jul. 12, 2012)
  ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv has announced that the 2012 CoSy® compiler development system delivers better performance than the latest LLVM 3.0 compiler on the ubiquitous ARM9 processor.
  
  
• Marmalade's Cross Platform SDK for Mobile Applications Coming to the MIPS Architecture (Wednesday Jul. 11, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies and Marmalade announced they are working together to bring Marmalade SDK support to the MIPS® architecture.
  
  
• App Developers Embrace the MIPS Architecture using Latest Release of Android NDK (Tuesday Jul. 10, 2012)
  MIPS announced that several leading app and game developers are using the latest version of the Android™ Native Development Kit (NDK) to bring their applications to the MIPS® architecture.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Support for the Multi-threaded MIPS32 34K Core with the Nucleus SMP RTOS (Monday Jul. 09, 2012)
  Mentor Graphics, with its flagship Nucleus® Real Time Operating System (RTOS), today announced the Nucleus product integration and SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) support for the MIPS32 34K core that utilizes MIPS Technologies' MT (hardware Multi-Threading) technology.
  
  
• MIPS-Based iPPea Device Brings "Smart" Android Experience to any HDMI-Enabled DTV for $50 (Monday Jul. 09, 2012)
  MIPS and iPPea today announced iPPea's new iPPea TV, an Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" dongle that brings the 'smart' Android experience to any HDMI-enabled DTV for $50 (U.S.).
  
  
• New MIPS-Based Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon to India, Latin America and Europe (Monday Jul. 09, 2012)
  MIPS and Actions Semiconductor announced the imminent market entrance of a new Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' tablet leveraging a MIPS-Based™ SoC from Actions.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Delivers New 32-Bit ARM Cortex Microcontrollers for Projects Needing Digital Signal Control at Competitive Cost (Tuesday Jun. 26, 2012)
  STMicroelectronics is now delivering the first samples of its new STM32 F3 series of microcontrollers to major OEM customers, enabling early evaluation of this important new line in ST's product family featuring the ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M core embedded.
  
  
• CEVA and eyeSight Announce Availability of Software-based Gesture Recognition Solution for the CEVA-MM3101 Imaging and Vision Platform (Tuesday Jun. 26, 2012)
  CEVA and eyeSight Mobile Technologies today announced the availability of an optimized software-based gesture recognition solution for the CEVA-MM3101 imaging and vision platform.
  
  
• Discretix Content Protection Solutions Incorporated in Qualcomm's Snapdragon StudioAccess Technology (Monday Jun. 25, 2012)
  Discretix today announced that its DRM and Link Protection solutions have been incorporated in Qualcomm's Snapdragon StudioAccess™ technology.
  
  
• Rightware Collaborates with Freescale and Vivante to Enable Highly Advanced Automotive In-Vehicle Infotainment and Instrument Cluster Systems (Wednesday Jun. 20, 2012)
  Rightware Oy, a leader in embedded 3D user interface (UI) technologies has collaborated with Freescale semiconductor and Vivante Corporation to enable Kanzi® UI Solution, Rightware’s flagship user interface product, on Freescale’s i.MX 6 Series of application processors.